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Vegetarian Baby - protein sources?
My little girl is about to turn one year old. She's never eaten meat, and maybe she will when she can decide for herself. It's not my choice to make for her. Anyway... Without meat, protein is always a prime dietary consideration. So I'm looking for ways to make sure she gets enough protein in her diet. I mean, I can feed…
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Larosa jalapeno peppers stuffed with feta cheese
I've enjoyed these things for years, but I've always been pretty suspicious of the nutritional label's claim that they have 20-25 calories per pepper. Now I'm in downright disbelief. I took 5 of these peppers, wiped off all the oil (that's right, they come soaked in canola oil, 25 calories my *kitten*!) and weighed them.…
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Trans fats
They seemed to be pretty much phased out of packaged foods nowadays, or at least I thought. Today I was eating a small bag of Hawkins Cheezies, and I was surprised to see 2.5g of trans fat on there. I can't recall seeing more than trace amounts on a label in a long time. 2.5g is a ton! relatively speaking of course. what…
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Soy Milk a bit too sweet for substituting in cooking "savory
My wife and I are vegetarians at home. We also don't drink milk. We do a lot of substitution with meatless and soy products still. We've noticed that dishes such as lipton sidekicks, or hamburger helper, or packaged scalloped potatoes, etc, will have too much of a sweet taste to them when we substitute soy for cow's milk.…
